Water Wardens
The Government of Jamaica signed a loan with the World Bank for the funding of the Integrated Community Development Project (ICDP) with Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) as the implementing agency. This ICDP aims to provide advanced training to at risk youths, which will provide the necessary skills set to detect water leaking pipes under and above ground. We also employed the assistance of internationally renown water specialist Dr. Kala Flemming. Over the training will cover areas such as: plumbing and leak detection, leak detection and water audit, business development and soft skills. The project is being implemented in eighteen under privileged communities in seven parishes across Jamaica.
Digital Skills Training Program
The JCC Sameer Younis Foundation in partnership with UWI, Mona School of Business and Management have started the delivery of the Digital Skills Training which is a part of the ICDP Youth Capacity Grant Initiative launched Programme Pilot. Google and Caribbean school of data had its launch on September 12, 2019 in Dominican Republic, and on October 1st, 2019 the CSOD launched its programme in Jamaica at the Jamaica Pegasus which was aired virtually. This program is currently in progress and the current stage is set to last until Summer 2020.
Development of an Early Childhood Development Policy
Change Makers was awarded a World Bank funded contract in August 2017 by the Government of Jamaica’s Ministry of Education/Early Childhood Commission to draft the policy on Early Childhood Development. The Green Paper is now awaiting approval by Parliament. The Green Paper was submitted to the Minister in August 2018 for review and subsequent submission to Cabinet and Parliament.
Assessment of National Public Education/Awareness Campaigns
Commissioned by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) under a grant from the EU’s Poverty Reduction Programme IV, Change Makers was contracted in December 2016 to analyse seven (7) public awareness campaigns to evaluate each campaigns’ usefulness in alleviating the problems surrounding crime, violence, deviant behaviour, sexual exploitation, discrimination and abuse. The consultancy consisted of a mixed-method Knowledge and Perception (KAP) analysis to evaluate the campaigns’ usefulness in alleviating the problems surrounding crime, violence, deviant behaviour.
Caribbean Regional Girls in ICT Day
In 2017, Change Makers designed and implemented the ground-breaking Caribbean Regional International Girls in ICT Day, in partnership with UN International Telecommunications Unit in Switzerland, with over 300 young women and girls participating in three (3) Caribbean islands – Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago. On April 26, 2018 Change Makers implemented the second annual Caribbean Regional International Girls in ICT Day held simultaneously in Jamaica, Barbados, St Vincent, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. The event featured over 800 girls and young women participating across five (5) Caribbean countries.